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A view of the process on a montior as lab staff use a microscope stand and articulated hand controls to extract cells from 1-7 day old embryos that are then checked for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab in Hous

Why an international court struck down Costa Rica’s IVF ban

Reproductive rights

The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Lynn Morgan, a medical anthropologist focused on Latin America, about Costa Rica’s legal battles and religious debates about allowing access to IVF.

Hand reaching forward to set the timer on a washing machine

How tech reshapes our relationships

Women & Gender
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.

An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy

Medicine
A woman walks on the shore of the Mediterranean in Tel Aviv.

Facebook can learn from Israel when it comes to freezing women’s eggs

Health